What a day! If you are fan of music and, of course, of Eva, you may know how exciting it is when news start dropping about new singles, albums or even tour. Sometimes it happens within a few days, sometimes all at once. Like today.

This morning Eva posted on Twitter a #nowplaying post – informing that she was playing a new song, Säg mitt namn, with a link to Spotify.

It soon became clear that Eva would be performing that song later today at the Grammis gala. You can see the performance here (around minute 27!) if you missed it or want to see it again. Eva also presents and gives the prize to Artist of the Year at the gala (around minute 102).

And just a couple of minutes ago Sony Music Sweden sent out a press release with the information that the new-long-awaited album “Jag sjunger ljuset” will be released on April 22nd, 2016. And if that wasn’t enough, Eva will give a few of concerts in “the North” too. One of them is on April 29th at Nobelberget in Stockholm. More concert dates will be announced soon!

The artists that will perform at the (Swedish) Grammis gala were announced today. Aaaand Eva will be one of them! It is still not clear which song she will perform, it could be “Filmen om oss” or a new song/single.

The gala is on February 24th and will be broadcasted live on SVT Play and later on SVT1.

Eva Dahlgren has released the new single “Filmen om oss” today. The single can be found on the usual digital platforms (Spotify or Deezer for example).

The single will be followed by a new album in autumn. Eva has been busy with other projects since she released her last album Petroleum och tång in 2007. Among others, she has been in the second season of Så mycket bättre (here you can listen to the resulting EP of versions), performed the monologue “Ingen är som jag” in 2010-2011, released a compilation in 2012, went on tour in autumn 2012 and summer 2013 and lately she has been working in a feature documentary film about Ingrid Bergman.

Eva started to film in Super8 some time ago and got involved in the shooting of “Jag är Ingrid” as the film director, Stig Björkman, asked her to do some recordings in Super8. Eva wrote “Filmen om oss” during the project and the song became the theme song of the film and is now the first single out of the upcoming album (title still unknown).

Eva has worked with Nathan Larson (married to Nina Persson, known for composing numerous film scores) in New York and Christoffer Berg (who did the programming in “Delta Machine” by Depeche Mode, among others) in Sweden (Stockholm, Göteborg, Malmö). This is what Eva says about the new album (in Swedish below).

Working as a cinematographer in the documentary about fantastic Ingrid Bergman influenced me more than what I thought. Half-way in the film project I scraped almost all music I had written and started all over again. I wanted to sing about the light! I wanted to capture the big wild beautiful fragile live that flickers by like small film frames. Capture that and sing that.

The first song I wrote became Ingrid’s song. Filmen om oss. Recorded in a studio in Brooklyn about a year ago together with some of Nathan Larson’s friends.

I had been longing to work with Nathan for a long time and now all his experience in composing movie scores is going to come at hand with the atmosphere I want to build around my songs. For the rest of the album I wroked with Christoffer Berg, modular synth master!

But more about this next time. Now I am on my way to Malmö to finish my album.

/Eva

The documentary film “Jag är Ingrid” will premiere in Sweden on August 28. It was presented in Cannes flim festival in spring and various film festivals across the globe since then.

Eva will be one of the artists to perform at “The Show of Christmas”, a concert organised by the Stockholm Consumer Cooperative Society / Konsument Föreningen Stockholm, which will take place in Ericsson Globe on December 7th.

As previously mentioned, EMI Finland informed in a press release that there would be a 3CD version of Eva Dahlgren’s compilation “Tid – Urval av sånger 1980 till nu” which would include 1 CD with 17 demos. While there is still no date for the release of this special edition, the 17 demos – consisting of the 10 Eva already released in Summer plus 7 new – can already be listened to on Spotify.

Eva Dahlgren kicked off the tour “Eva Dahlgren live 23 sånger” yesterday, October 4th, in Turku, Finland. The tour will take Eva and her band across Finland, Sweden and Norway in October and November. If you haven’t got tickets yet, it’s time to check this post out!

A new compilation with the title “Tid – Urval av sånger 1980 till nu” will be released in Northern Europe countries on September 26th (SWE) / 28th (FIN). The compilation will include 2 CDs with the following tracks:

EMI Finland informs on this press release that there will also be a special edition of this compilation with 3CDs. The 3rd CD should feature 17 demos (probably the 10 previously released this summer plus 7 new). There is yet no play list or release date for this special edition.